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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-21
The Model Merino Ram.

The fleece on the merino ram should be
dense, well set and standing well up
under pressure, and when pressed down
should have sufficient elasticity to return
quickly to its upright position. 1t ought
to be dense rather than long in staple,
and should cover all parts of the body,
head, legs and underneath the belly. 1t
is desirable that this last have the wrin-
kles running down on to and across it,
covered with as long thick wool as the
sides The face should be covered with a
heavy foretop of wool trimmed round
broadly under the eyes. The model ram
does not have the wool running down very
close to the end of the nose; but ram
with such a face may be profitably used
on flock if the ewes have poor faces.
The fleece ought to be as even in length,
thickness and quality on all parts of the
body as possible.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-21
LOCAL NOTICES.

We make specially of flour and retail
it at wholesale prices. Streckfus &
Schaab.
TenderlOin. spare ribs, sausage meat,
kettle rendered and leaf lard. at Gil
more's pork house.
You can get cut rates over any railroad
At Blake's ticket office 1903 Second
avenue. div
What people want in a carriage-spring
is ease and durability on rough road.
The Rice Coil spring fills the bill.
Go to the city mills for YOUR flour. buck
wheat, rye flour, rye meal, graham, corr
meal, ground fresh every day. Streckfus
u Schaab.
Insure in the BoylstOn Insurance Co. of
Boston. Mass. organized 1872 Assets
nearly S1.000.000 E. W Hurst, agent.
Office over Rock Island National Bank
Stop and figure what 50 pounds of oats
and 50 pounds of sheled corn cost, then
see what the city mills sell 100 pounds
of chopsfeed for. Streckfus & Schaab.
Public Notice.
Anyone having business with the ARGUS
office after 6 p m. (In the event that the
Office is ciosed) will please call at vii,
mans & Galt's news stand in the pOstoffice
building. who are authorized to transact
business of eycrV nature for the ARGUS.
chea D Mail Boxes.
The finest mai! and paper hox ever in
vented is for Sale at the ARGUS Office at
the low price of 81 each. The same box
Is sold everywhere at 81 So Call and ex-
anime them.
Saloon Sale
A saloon with fixtures complete for
sale at cost price. Apply of Emil
Heberle, corner of Fifth street and Third
avenue.
VIM. MCEnIry,
Attorney at law, loans money on good
security, makes collections. Reference,
Mitchell & Lynde, bankers. Office in
post Office block
Barth & Babcock, Dentists.
No. f724 Second avenue. Special atten-
ton paid to saving the natural teeth and
Inserting teeth without plates.
Taxss.
The taxes for 1886 are now due. Office
in the court house.
GEO. Z. LAMBERT, Collector.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-21
Slave Hunting in Africa.

There seems TO be reason to fear that
slave hunting is again largely on the in
crease in central Africa. That was, of
course, foretold as certain consequence
of the abandonment of the Soudan. Now
we hear that the station at Stanley Falls,
on the upper Congo, has been abandoned
under the pressure of Arab hostilities, in
stigated, it is believed, by the veteran
slave hunter Tippu lib, whose opera
tons in this very region have been de-
scribcd by Mr.. Stanley. That gentleman
came up with a single caravan of $500
slaves, mostly women and children; and
he calculates that for every slave caught
six had been killed in the foray. The ter
rible sufferings of the desert marches,
which the caravans have commonly to
make, cause, of course, frightful waste
OF life. Still the difficulty remains as to
what becomes of these vast droves of hui
man beings One gentleman states that
10000 slaves passed his house on their
way to the east coast in single year.
The east coast is closely watched by our
ships, and only chance cargo is sup
posed to escape their vigilance. Where
did the 10000 60 to3-St. James Ga
2ptta
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-21

Anyone who mas ever dealt in lands,
knows that no investment of money will
so surely and quickly yield return, as
such venture If carefully made. To
the absolute safety % u government
bond, is added profit far in excess of
rate of interest which can be obtained
ON any safe loan. In Kansas and Neb-
raska especially lands are raising in value
very rapidly and with a steady growth
which gives assurance Of stability. The
good season and the great tide of immiA
grafton into these states has made invest
ment there doubly safe and desirable
The climate of Southern Nebraska aud
of Kansas, free as it is from the long
RIGOROUS cold winter, added to soil
unsurpassed for richness and productive
capacity, has made possible the wonderful
development of these states. To the far
mer they hold out special inducements.
Cheap land. easy term of purchase, good
markets and varied products enable him to
own his farm at q smaller cost and with less
labor than is required to pay rent for the
land he occupies here, or the interest on
the money he has invested in it.
If you are looking for safe place to
invest money. where it will pay you a
large and sure profit, or if you are FARM
er and want farm of your own, call on
me and see what | have to offer. will
make the visit profitable to you. Office
over American Express Office, Rock Is.
land. III. SAvILLE JOHNSTON
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-21

Concerning new social freak which is
coming to the front in the east and
threatening to engulf the west. cores
pondent says: Progressive dinner par
ties are getting to be quite feature of
fashionable life, and they seem to be pops
uIar with the hosts as well as the guests.
This is the way they are managed: Each
lady is given some little badge or trinket,
and the man who has similar one takes
her out to dinner After the second
course all the men move the seat to the
left; the same after each other course,
until they find themselves back by the
side of their first partners. They take
their wine glasses and their napkins with
them as they move around; but otherwise
their places are, of course, entirely reset. ="
1t may be all that New Yorker wants in
the shape of change to merely renew
his partner, but the average Rock Island
diner would care less about trading off
his partner than he would to exchange
the old table for new one.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-21

See this 'poSSum's paw = asked a
young negro boy, drawing a glossy paw
from his vest pocket. Game all the way
from San Francisco on that paw. Hoo
dooed the trains, the conductors and the
brakemen with it and lived high all the
time. The night ! started ont of San
Francisco rubbed the rails with the WOO
doc and then shook it over the conductor S
right shoulder when he wasn't looking
From that minute ] had the conductor
under spell, and he never harmed me
from the time We left San Francisco until
we reached Ogden But there are heap
better voodoos than 'poSsum's paw Deed
there are. The tail Of a black snake will
bring anything yol want, while the sec
ond joint bone of n dead man laws over
'em all for luck. The hind leg of wild
rabbit is losing its charm You can't
scare crap shooter with btlshel basket
full of EN-, whereas few years ago the
sight of one paw would be enough to
break up the most interesting game on the
avenue. Chicago Herald
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-21

Capt. Cleveland, father of Professor II.
W. S. Cleveland, the well known land
scape architect, was an adventurous
Yankee navigator, and the story of his life
reads like romance. During one voyage
he ran his vessel into a Mexican port COM
manded by blue hlOoded Spanish hidalgo,
who also controlled a small fort in the
Bay of Santiago. He peremptorily ordered
Capt, Cleveland to leave the place, and as
the latter was passing the fort shot was
fired across the PROV of his vessel This
was too much for the patience of the
Yankee captain, and he at once ordered
the three small guns that he carried
turned upon the fort and opened fire In
about ten minutes the fort was knocked
to pieces and the little Spanish garrison
driven out pell nell. Subsequently Capt.
Cleveland received letter from Commo-
dore Biddle, United States navy, asking
him TO become governor of California,
and saying that he was justly entitled to
the position because he was the first
man to conquer the territory. Pioneer
Press II listener -
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-21

The revenue refOrmers in congress mean
to carry the war for lower duties into the
heart of PENNSYLVANIA.
British agrIcuiturists are gaining IN
their ability to compete with the outside
competition Of America and Australia
The Fall River print cloth manufac-
turers have sold 1,000,000 pieces for fu-
ture delivery, and the productive capacity
is from 1000 900 to 10000, 900 pieces
Der year. Stocks have not been as low
for years. Wages have increased ten
per cent.
One of the largest engineering undertak
iDgs now in progress is the construction
of the Illinois steel bridge at Cairo The
approach will be mile and a half 10
length and the bridge proper a mile,
making the entire bridge four miles long
and ffty-two feet above high>water
mark. The structure will be the finest
on the Ohio
A Philadelphia corpora ton has opened
a vein of iron ore in North Carolina 300
feet wide, which gives ~. 000, 900 tons of
ore in sight. 1t makes superb steel. A
railroad is being built from South Caro-
lima through this ore region to the Ohio
river. by which this ore will be delivered
TO furnaces that may want it.
The Pennsylvania railroad company
has just built thirty-two sixty ton en-
gines, with four driving wheels. which
can draw forty>five loaded freight cars
with as much ease as the largest engines
now on the surface can draw thirty FIVE
cars. All the bridges are being strengths
ened TO stand the weight of these mon
sters.
The production of coke in 1886 was
30 per cent. greater than in 1885.
The State Workmen's Assembly of
New York met at Albany on Tuesday.
The wOrkmen will lay their plans for
presenting programme to the legisla-
ture. Ali special grievances are called
for. The retail statesmen will ask that
an amendment TO the closing law be
sought. All workingmen will amend the
repeal Of the conspiracy laws. The print.
ers will urge that state printing office
be started. The building trades will
show why the mechanic lien law should
be amended. A general demand will be
made for the enforcement of the eight
hour law.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-21

There are LOO medicines in the pha"ma-
copPia of the United States, and in most
communities there is one man who has
tried every one of them before discovering
that there never was anything the matter
with him. The taste for strong drink is a
mild, iunoCuous, feeble inclination. com
pared with the raging mania for taking
medicine when once ii gains a pernicious-
" actice hold upon man. There are not
many really sick people in the world, and
if it wasn't for the man who delights in
dosing himself with anything that has a
long name and an almanac attachment,
there wouldn't he half enough paint on the
rocks of picturesque America to hide the
landscape. Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-21
ADVICE To MOTHERS.

Are you disturbed at night and broken
of your rest by sick child suffering and
crying with pain of cutting teethf If 30,
send at once and get bottle of Mrs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething. Its value is incalculable.
1t will relieve the poor little sufferer i'm '
mediately. Depend upon it mothers,
there is no mistake about it. 1t cures
diarrhoes, regulates the stom-
sch and bowels, cures wind collie, soft
ems the gums, reduces Inflammation. and
gives tone and energy to the whole sys-
tenn. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
for Children Teething is pleasant to the
taste. and is the prescription of one of
the oldest and best female nurses and ply
sicians in the United States, and is for
sale by all druggists throughout the
world. Price 25 cents per bottle.
feb 2S-m-w-s- m 1-y
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-21
A GREAT MISTAKE

has heretofore been made in the treatment
of rheumatism, neuralgia, and nervous or
sick headache. This is evidenced by the
failure on the part of thousands of sufferers
to find relief, even though they have e1-
hausted the skill of various physicians and
tried numerous so-called remedies. To
such Athlophoros is offered as safe, sure,
and q,tick cure. Its success has been phe-
nomenal, and yet it is not surprising be-
cause it .ciN do all that is claimed for it.
The Athlophoros Co. will gladly refer any
who desire to make an investigation TO re-
liable parties who have been cured by it.
J.P. Mallette, of the Mallette & Ray
mond Manuf Co, No. 329 South Canal ST.,
Chicago, Ill.,, says: "My wife has beena great
sufferer from neuralgia for long while,
but half bottle of Athlophoros cured her
SO that she has not suffered any since.
When it was first recommended to her,
she would not get it as she was always OPP
posed to taking any kind of patent medi-
cines. But as the treatment she was under
gave her no relief insisted on her trying
Athlophoros After taking half bottle
the neuralgia was gone and has not re-
turned SINCE.
Decatur Ill.
/ have been afflicted with rheumatism
for several years During the past winter l
was stricken with very severe attack,
rendering me almost helpless and combining
me to my bed. l tried various medicines
and was prescribed for by physicians with
no avail. Finally was induced to try
Athlophoros. was relieved and cured SO
quickly that words could not tell my sur
prise. do not hesitate in recommending
it to any one suffering with that painful
complaint rheumatism. A. NJ. BLAKNEY,
Cor. Union and Green SITS.
Every druggist should keep Athlophoros
and Athlophoros Pills, but where they can
not be bought Of the druggist the Athlo-
phoros Co, liz Wall St, New York, will
send either carriage paid) on receipt of
regular price, which is $l.00 per bottle
for Athlophoros and Soc for Pills.
For liver and kidney diseases, dyspepsia, in
digestion, weakness, nervous debility, diseases
of women, constipation, headache, impure
blood, &c, Athlophoros Pills are unequaled 8
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-21

Electrical heating stoves are being in
troduced in France, a peculiar feature of
their construction being that the wires are
let through apertures formed in plates of
refractory clay and plumbago. These
plates are not inclosed, but are left cx-
posed, so that the air can circulate very
freely through the apertures, where It
comes in contact with the red hot wires.
Wire bobbins are inserted in the apertures,
each bobbin forming part Of the electric
circuit, and all heing connected for guam
tity: the bobhins are heated by the pass
age Of the current, and serve to heat the
air as it passes TO and fro over them
New York Sun.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-21

DO | remove any mustaChes for ladies?
Yes, indeed They are much more com
mon than one would suppose Sometimes
they are natural, but again are cultivated
by using some kind Of soapine dentifrice,
which forms lather about the lips and
encourages the growth Of the hair. 1t Is
wrong for il woman to make a practice of
washing her face with soap and warm
water, and many nurses injure children
by a too liberal application Of both. A
woman : face should be bathed in luke
warm wa er and now and then washed
with Il little white CASTLE soap. But when
the injury is done and the mustachc begins
TO appear the next step is to have it eradi-
Gated. New York Journal.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-21
A WALKING SKELETON.

Mr. E. Springer, of Merchandising,
Pa, writes; Il was afflicted with lung
fever and abscess on lungs, and reduced
to q ralking Skeleton Got free trial
bottle of DR.. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption, which did me SO much
good that | bought dollar bottle. After
using three bottles, found myself once
more a man, completely restored to
health, with hearty appetite, and gain
in flesh of 4S lbs" Call at Hartz &
Bahnsen's drug store and get free trial
bottle of this certain cure for all Lung
Diseases Large bottles S1.OO.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-21
THOUSANDS SAY 30.

Mr.. T. W. Atkins, Girard, Kan, writes
i never hesitate to recommend your
Electric Bltters TO my customers, they
give entire satisfaction and are rapid
sellers" Electric Bitters are the purest
and best medicine known and will posi-.
lively cure Kidney and Liver complaints
Purify the blood and regulate the bowels.
No family can afford TO be without them.
They will save hundreds of dollars in
doctors bills every year.
Sold at fifty cents bottle by Hartz s.
Bahnsen.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-21
INDUSTRIAL TOPICS.

LATEST News From Thirty -eightlstates
--Goed News From Abroad-Labor
and Wages --Manufacturers Busy
Good Year Ahead
or us.
Storekeepers and manufactures in many
small towns mildly contradict the reports
of booming activity in the great chan
nels of industry and trade. The sum-
maries of the great industrial and bust.
ness centres count up IS per cent. ahead
of 1885 This is strong proof.
Steel rails have bounded from S34 to
S3S and 1900 900 tons are sold, though
most Of them are near the former figure
Nearly LOO locomotives have been
ordered within ninety days included with
orders to be placed this week. All
the car works are loaded with orders
The blast furnace output has increased
1000 tons in month, and is now 1885,
600 tons per week The iron and steel
buyers are trembling lest an advance
take place.
The bears are decreasing wheat iu New
York under increasing visible supplies in
the west and checked exports Hog pro-
ducts and provisions are weaker Dry
goods and clothing are in better demand
at New York and Philadelphia and cash
mere and worsted Manufacturers are ask
ing per cent. more.
A good many failurs are occurring as
usual after January settlements.
Money is accommodating at New York
and less is wanted in the interior The
reserve this year is $2s, 100000 against
$4,000, 900 last year at this time. Stock
speculation has been dull at many eastern
and western centres.
Business is active at Boston, especially
in wool, boots and shoes. At Phila-
delphia iron aud steel makers and dry
goods, carpets and hosiery manufacturers
report increasing activity. At Pittsburgh,
the volume of business is increasing and
the iron trade was never more active 9.
At Cincinnati, the southwark movement
of merchandise is heavy and values are
firm all around At Cleveland. business
is fair and prices little higher. AT
Chicago, the cold weather has slightly
retarded business, but the country trade
will absorb an enormous production
General merchandise prices are not high.
ST. Louis markets are active for mid
January. Kansas City trade promises tc
be very heavy for the winter. New
Orleans merchants are receiving excellent
interior advices. Collections are good.
St. Paul's business has been temporarily
checked by the weather
The architects and builders see little
farther ahead. and in all cities there is q
stir of preparation. Big house, mill aud
factory building will be early entered
upon in the east, and in the west boom
ing railroad building will call out grea
deal OF enterprise and activity in labor
Wages will certainly not decline. In som'
directions. they will advance. Employer,
have opened the wear in several directions
by advancing wages voluntarily.
Combinations of employers are pro
crossing all over the country. and EN-
ployers feel less concerned this year
Last year niue manufacturers associa
tons locked out 10000 workmen and IL
all 450. 900 struck. of these 100, 900 wer'
in Chicago, rs, 900 in New York. 33, 900 il
Cincinnati, Here is list by industries
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-21

A mechanic in Louisville, Ky, thinks
that he has invented an apparatus which
will discourage the giving of false alarms
OF fire. His appliance is pair of mag
netic nippers which grab by the wrist the
man who turns in the alarm and hold him
at the box until the arrival of the fire de-
partment The man who turns in the
alarm can be released only by the firemen,
who are supplied with keys which turn of
the current, when the magnet relaxes its
grip-New York Sun.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-21
Roscoe Conkling's Charity.

Roscoe Conkling is daily beset with in
digent lawyers, who look upon the ex-
senator as n sort Of animated sub-treas-
ury. He has given them yards of green
backs, but yesterday he drew the line on
a lawyer who had been a regular customer
for six months or more Turning to him
Mr.. Conkling said See here, I've given
you enough to support a whole family
for year or two Now you must stand
aside and give somebody else a show y
New York Sun
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-21
DETITIoN TO SELL REAL ESTATE.

ROCK isL.xp COUNTY. IS In the County
Court TO the February term. A. D. 1887.
Edward Murrin vs. Jane Murrin. Bridget Cum
ninghsm. Michael Mnrrin, Ann Conwen, Bridget
Murrin, Jane Murrin, John Murriu Ann Murrn
Petition to sell real estate TO pay debts.
Afidavit of the non-residence OF Jane Murrin.
Bridget Cunningham. Micnsel Murrin and Ann
Conwell, defendants above named, having been
filed in the Office of the clerk OF said County court
of Rock leland county, notice If hereby given TO
the said Jane Murrin, Bridget Cunningham,
Michael Murrin and Ann Conwen. that the said
petitioner, Edward MurIin, administrator of the
estate Of John Murrin. deceased, has heretofore
fled his petition in ssd County court Of Rock
Island county. praying for decree for the sale of
the real estate belonging TO the estate Of said de-
ceased or so much Of ii as may be needed to pay
the debts of said deceased. and described as fol-
lows, to-wit: Sub lot CiOl ten block 14) fourteen
in Spencer & Cases addition TO the city Of Rock
leland in the comfy of Rock Island and state of
Illinois; and that a summons has been issued out
Of said court against yon, returnable 10 the Feb
ruary term, A p. 1887, of said court TO be holden
on the Third Mondsy of February. A. d. 1887. at
the court house in Rock Island in said Rock Isl
and county.
Now, unless Won the said ia ne Murrin, Bridget
Cunningham, Michael MBrrin and Ann Conw ell
shall personally be and sppear before said coun-
iy court of Rock Island county on the first day of
q term thereof TO be holden at the court house in
said county as aforesaid on the Sd Monday of Feb
ruary, A. ID. 1887 and plead answer or demur. TO
the said complainants' petition fled therein the
same and the matters and things therein charge d
and stated will be takenas confessed, and a de-
cree entered against you ACCORDING 10 the
prayer Of said petition.
RICHARD A DONALDSON, Clerk.
P. 0'MARA,
Compt'Is Sol'r
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-21

would be truthful name to give to DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery" the
most efficacious medicine yet discovered
for arrestlng the early development of
pulmonary disease. But consumption
cure would not sufficiently indicate the
scope of its influence and usefulness. In
all the many diseases which spring from
arrangement of the liver and blood the
discovery" is safe and sure specific.
OF all druggists.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-21

II am living in neighborhood sur
rounded with dlphtheria and was attack
ed with liberated sore throat. / at once
commenced to use Darbys Prophylactic
fluid, diluted about one half, as gargle,
when great clots of hard membrane and
mucous came from my throat. and the at
tack passed off. / am satisfied of its
efficacy as preventive and cure for
diptheria. w. P. WOODWARD, Frank ;
ford. Pa.